Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Digital Inclusion

How is digital inclusion viewed through critical theoretical paradigms?
- How do Indigenous ways of knowing and being intersect with digital futures?
- How must we redesign digital communication technologies to ensure inclusion?
- How do online communities offer opportunities and challenges for disability communities in a post COVID-19 landscape?
- How does digital justice intersect with other dimensions of social justice, such as climate, spatial, and food justice?
- In what ways are emerging learning technologies (e.g., AI) expanding or limiting inclusion?
- How can digital tools enhance inclusion for those with limited access to health care, and what are the limitations of digital health for inclusion of marginalized populations?

Royal Roads University’s academic culture values applied research, creativity, and the timely transfer of knowledge that meets the needs of communities and the knowledge driven society. As the CRC you will be an integral part of RRU’s overall plan to promote and develop its research enterprise and to support the university’s unique mandate.

As a Tier 2 CRC at Royal Roads, you will develop an exemplary scholarly and creative presence, complement and enrich research and scholarship among faculty and graduate students, and participate in local and international research networks. While based in one faculty, you will collaborate with other units within RRU as appropriate.

The key foci of the position will be as follows:

- Undertake relevant (nationally and internationally as appropriate), high quality applied research in the area of inter
- and transdisciplinary approaches. You will be expected to provide a detailed research plan outlining key research areas and questions, research partnerships and collaborations, and potential funding sources.
- Develop/expand networks, partnerships and collaborations within organizations, communities, and individuals to support the research agenda, including building linkages with faculty and associate faculty at RRU and other academic institutions;
- Pursue and obtain research funding from diverse sources including federal, provincial, public and private, to finance the research agenda;
- Pursue an active dissemination strategy that targets diverse audiences and stakeholders, i.e., academics, businesses, community members, practitioners, and policymakers, at the local, provincial, national and international level;
- Contribute to Canada’s research profile nationally and internationally, consistent with the goals of the CRC program. The Chair will work with their Dean to raise the profile of the Chair, the school(s), and the university;
- Develop and support student and post-doctoral training and research and assist in the support and development of the university’s doctoral programs.

The diversity of our common humanity enriches our communities. It expands our learning, teaching and research. Diversity challenges us, strengthens our creativity and improves our adaptability.

We celebrate the intersectionality of our identities, experiences and perspectives. We want Royal Roads to be a community where we relate to each other and the natural world, recognize our interdependence and can find a sense of belonging.

We invite you to join us in building a safe, caring and courageous university community where we uphold dignity, celebrate our common humanity and learn from different ways of knowing and being in the world.

To achieve this, we will:

- Facilitate learning, research and work environments that reflect and benefit from our diversity
- Encourage critical thought and dialogue that helps us to challenge existing structures and worldviews and enact justice
- Engage in shared leadership with open, inclusive, accountable, respectful and equitable conditions where ideas and people can flourish

To fulfil these commitments, we will support each other, especially members of equity-deserving groups. We are all in different places along our journeys and this work is difficult, complex and ongoing. Together we will cultivate a whole, thriving community greater than the sum of its parts.
- Job Requirements- PhD degree or doctorate in a relevant/aligned field;
- Demonstrated excellence in developing, resourcing, and conducting research projects in relevant fields;
- Demonstrated interdisciplinary and transdisicplinary skills in research and teaching and broad understanding of the fields of digital inclusion;
- A strong interest and demonstrated success in dissemination, including conventional academic publications, as well as mobilizing knowledge with policy
- and decision-makers, communities, organizations, and government and Indigenous communities;
- Demonstrated interest and success in building networks of both internal and external interests and stakeholders, including public sector, non-governmental and private sector organizations, and ability to collaborate locally and remotely, across the country and internationally;
- Teaching and